Whats the opposite of a ricer and what kind of parts would u want to put on ur car if u dont want to seem like a ricer

One thing to consider when you are asking the question if you are a ricer or not, is your outlook on racing/performance. A ricer is someone who is racing, installing(or rather having installed professionally) performance parts, turbo kits(chrome trim), taillights, headlights, fenders, etc just because they are trendy and it is cool. Thats why hondas have good and bad misconceptions. People think what they are doing makes your car fast, not faster "fast", and this mentality takes a fairly popular car, like a civic, and turns it into a medium of "rice" where they can make their ride look the "coolest" out of their friends. Now I have a problem with this sort of people, that are just into cars as a trend, because I base my life around them, and cant survive(mentally) with out them.
So to try and answer your question, RICE can be considered an acronym for: Race Inspired Car Enhancement. Where the person wil use things that are usually intended for hard core racing and use them to be cool.
Now, if you really dont want to be a ricer, you should just race, dont try to be cool, dont try to win people over with the looks of your car, and most of all "DONT CARE WHAT RICERS THINK"......Go for it, try to be differnt in a movement against the trendy ricer crowd, throw away that pos bodykit, get stock taillights, and dont think that intake gives you anywher close to 15 horsepower, and dont get them damn heavy "blingin" rims.


Jared

I agree, either go for looks or actually care about your car and go for performance. I dont have the money to make mine a real street racer, so I make it as good as I can. I dont exactly race since Im from a small town, but I like feeling alittle more power than usual. I also made my Neon all red and black, without the need for a spoiler or hoodscoop or expensive bodykit, though the evo ones do looks damn cool with the foglights. I just hope Dynomax catback isnt really loud and annoying! My car is far from show quality but I know it looks better than it was when I bought it...without being Ricey.

yo good look but u were right the evo kits do look hot!! but thanks jared u sound like u kno wut u doin

thanks,
As you can tell im really big on expressing my opinion, and may get carried away, but i'll stand with my points. I once was in the ricer stage, where i liked the painted interiors and the giant spoilers, i loved bodykits and z3 fenders. But, since then ive truly grown up, and realized that performance is way more of a rush than thinking a car looks good. Now you can call me a ricer if you want but im into the jdm mods for other cars(actually only japanese-american cars) but i love amber, not only for jdm things also. I dont understand what drives people to think that clear looks better, i know its just personal preference but damn i love amber, and true HID headlights. So i do actually care how my car looks but there some looks that im just not down for.
But me and my friends are all performance, the cars we dirve are a little strange, one being the worlds second fastest minivan(what a fast minivan) yes a fast minivan, it ran a 12.8 @104. So that can tell you right now what kind of person I am and my standings.

Thanks for checking my long opinion out,

Jared

what kind of minivan is it? My friends dad has a caravan R/T that is truly badass though i couldnt tell you the specs on it. I do know that he has some serious hookups with dodge though. His freind was the lead designer of the 300C that is coming out i think; and he designed the interior for the viper. As far as the ricer thing, these guys have said all there is to be said. Im in the same position as MStout. My car is better than stock, but no where near show room and extremely far from ricey.

i dont think bodykits and that stuff is ricey............as long as you have the performance to go fast along with looking fast

i dont think bodykits and that stuff is ricey............as long as you have the performance to go fast along with looking fast...alot of people were/are at the rice stage...truly im borderline.....but i always buy performance parts before i get something to look good so in my opinion im far from rice

I'm with eclipse, I don't think that bodykits, z-3's, lights, and all that stuff is ricey, I have all that in my neon, I 've had it for a couple months now, I am starting to do performance mods, I'd love to get a turbo, but because CA laws I wouldn't wanna mess with the law. What I think rice is, people with cars that only have an exaust and think they have a turbo, they get on your side and start pushing gas.

If you guys think I'm wrong, please feel free to tell me.

I actually dont agree, I believe that the most "ricey" thing to do to a car is get a bodykit. I really dont see how they look good, and especially making your car look like another make of vehicle, whats up with that? I dont see how getting bodykit can help the performance of a vehicle. Pretty much any goal of a ricer is to get their bodykit, their evo or skyline front piece with their bmw style fenders. I really dont see anything wrong with the ways a car looks stock and I cant even think how anyone can change it to look like a different car. This type of thing goes by saying that ricer's do things because they are cool, thats why you see so many magazines with "pimped out rides" in them with their blingin turbo's and blingin "NOS" bottle. Its all for show, im not complaining about show except their style's arent my bag, but what is performance about it, and why would you want your fast car to "look fast", as a ricer aquaintence once said, by having that bodykit, wing and taillights. I just dont see it. I wouldnt disgrace my car with such cosmetic disasters.


Jared

inductionbyforce.....if you were talking about me by saying ricer aquaintence....i was saying that if you are going to try to make your car "look fast", then just have the mods to back it up..which alot of show cars dont, and i DONT agree with that unless you only do show and never put your car on the track.

Quote:
"Nothing! As far as I can tell, there are three kinds of people who fix up their cars. There are the ones that care about performance and want to make their cars go fast/handle well. Then there are the ones that want to make their car look good. But there is a third group - those who try to make their car look fast.
You see, there is a difference between making a car look good and making a car look fast. Lowering a car and putting some nice rims on will enhance most cars' appearance. A car that has been lowered improperly that bounces down the street or leans to one side, though low, does not look better than stock. It just looks stupid. Putting on a giant sticker on the side of your car 99.9% of the time does not enhance your cars appearance.
But those who only want to make their cars look fast do so under the pretense of going for high-performance. They use performance to "justify" what they do to their cars. In actuality, they don't really care (or know anything about) performance and really just want to fit some image. These are the kind of people that bother me."
This quote is from the riceboypage.com, It'll answer all your questions. Please check it out.

Excellent point, ejbo1997. I'm impressed with that reply, and am glad that I am not the only one who feels this way, if that is the way you fell as well. That quote has a 100% truth to it. As for you eclipse, I wasnt talking about you, but your statement:
"...if you are going to try to make your car 'look fast', then just have the mods to back it up" how in the world does a body kit make a car look fast? If you can possibly answer it without going on the lines of "ricers with think its fast" go ahead. I have seen only a couple of cars, and I really mean a couple, that can actually back it up. And for a car to look that terrible it would have to be faster than the ones that back it up, even, to satisfy me. I can also say, the third group is the ricers, and domestic guys to disrespect anything that doesnt have a v8 in it, can also be ricers. Ive seen them, you've seen them, painting interiors, putting stickers on their car that isnt really sponsored. But all in all, ricers disgust me.

And that page that was mentioned, it really does the trick in explaining it totally.

ok sorry saying something back...didnt mean to come off as an asshole....i know exactly what you mean by only a couple of cars being able to back it up...and i agree with you completely..the bodykit doesnt make it look fast, its just a term i use about cars with them and neons and stickers but no performance mods...

I'm glad you all understood that you can make your car look nice, without making it look ricey. Hopefully you checked out that site, is really good. Thanks.

one point missed out in favor of the body kits, is most of them add an oepning to put in a intercooler right into the air flow, which is the same way they designed the srt-4's intercooler...i'm not saying that most people with body kits do it for this reason, but it is a valid reson to get them.

my personal mod prefrences, all either change the way something works( not looks unless it goes with a new function), and lots gages, for monitering everything going on in the car so you can see the difference that the perfomace mods do make. and i also like customizing a color and materials scheme in the interior, but that's cuz i like the difference's people come up with. my favorite so far is a kangaroo and sueade interior.

Well i dont know whats wrong wid putting a body kit i mean a car is like a person make it different thats what it's all about. but i do agree if the car is gonna look fast back it up!.

there is a thin line between show and go. but i dont think if you like one more then another means your considered a ricer.

there is a thin line between show and go. but i dont think if you like one more then another means your considered a ricer.

WHAT!!! You have to be joking. Thin line my ass! They are two different things completely. There are some things that are definatlely "go", but are considered "show" but by no means are they two terms in any way related.
Here's an example, "show" is like what you'd find at a car show, "go" is like what you would find at a race track(back in the day, now you find show at the track) The problem with the things you add, all they do is bling anymore. No one is concerened how fast you really go. They are too worried about how much those rims are gonig to cost, or how much "cooler" thier car would be with a turbo kit on it. I say all show or all go. Be hardcore into one of those, and dont bug the real racers with the half and half bullshit.

yeah your right, I kind miss worded my self when I posted that statement, but there are different opinions on what a ricer is considered to be. But in reality there are different degrees in show and go. if a person wants a show quality car that is strickly show its cool. and if a person wants a full on drag car thats also cool. but no matter what there will always be the people that are in between. because not every one has the money or time to do both. Lot of people i know like to go the street show approach. were there car is nice looking and clean but lagging in the performance area.

There Is A Line,but Its Not Fine. I Do Agree On The Making A Car Because Some One Else Does Is Whack, I Got A Neon In 99 Because No One Else Did. My Shit Ran 13.6 Allmotor, With Mainly Bolt Ons

Key words: Function OVER Form
"What does it do, BEFORE what does it look like!"
You can buy a nice bumper, but it won't do any good if it's not leting air in.
You can waste money on a chrome intake. Looks pretty, but it's almost worse than the shit that comes stock.
Some things will help both performance and looks, but are few and far between. Thats what has to be decided first as far as rice. Do the parts have a purpose!

well before yuo can look good, you have to get those peformace parts done to the degree that you want. Then start with a body or piece by piece. I hate to drive a viper with stock 140whp. It doesn't fit together. Better yet take the approach you want.

But just becuase you want to make your car look cool, but not go for the performance aspect of it doesnt mean that you are a ricer, I know many people that put tons of money into their body and then not do major power work, being a "ricer" is like you said doing something just because its the cool thing to do, but their are many people who really take passion in what their car looks like. I also happen to know many people that have really fast moded cars and dont know the basic mechanic skills to perform even the easiest of tasks on their cars. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder

why would you want to know whats the opposite of ricer that just seems like a stupid question to ask. stop wasting your time and our time on question like that.

If you don't know the answer to something, you ASK or SEARCH. And if anybody is wasting anybodies time, dont post. You just look like a smart-ass if you reply